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YouTube begins verifying videos by UK doctors to tackle health misinformation
Rachel Lang, The Independent, 2023/09/08

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Google steps into the gap Twitter left vacant. "YouTube has launched a verification system for UK-based doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to help Britons dodge medical misinformation online... UK-based users accounted for more than two billion video views of clips on health conditions in 2021." How long before it matters less where your degree came from and what it is that it does that you're 'YouTube Certified'?

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How IKEA Upskilled 8,500 Employees Using AI To Boost Sales by $1.4 Billion
Ross Stevenson, Steal These Thoughts!, 2023/09/08

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How believable is this article? I really couldn't say. But it's a nice case study of how AI could (and maybe did) transform the call centre sales function. Also in AI: from GG, "Google's generative AI tools now turn text into online worlds." According to this article, a tool called Hiber3D "has integrated Google's AI tools to give creators the ability to type what they want to see—and generate an immersive world." Again, test before you buy; I can't vouche for the veracity of this report. Finally, as TorontoLife reports in this excellent article, "Go to the website of any liberal-arts university and you'll see marketing copy on critical thought, eloquence and the intellectual imagination. Arguably, the cultivation of these virtues can now be short-circuited by our new AI platforms."

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What the wealthy consider 'fair' may not be equal to others
Rachel Lang, University of Michigan News, 2023/09/08

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This is a great example of what I mean when I say that we do not have a common set of values across society. Everybody wants justice and income distribution to be 'fair', sure, but for very different meanings of 'fair'. "Wealthy Americans have distinct preferences regarding fairness, with a greater willingness to accept inequalities relative to the general public, according to a new University of Michigan study." Via ResearchBuzz.

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Deconstructing Power in the Age of AI
Laura Hilliger, 2023/09/08

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This is a nice analysis of the impact of AI on our lives and our learning from the perspective of French and Raven's six forms of power and how they will be reshaped. It's great up to this point, but then Laura Hilliger says, "As we progress into the age of AI, we need to protect and enable people's personal power. We need to ensure that AI-powered decisions are transparent, unbiased, and aligned with human values." Sure. Sounds great. But even fully transparent AI can be fully understood, there's no such thing as 'unbiases', and there's no single set of values that constitute 'human values'. This is true of all human institutions (government, the press, the church, the university) and it's true of AI. We want what we cannot have.

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